Moschus
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General EN
Moschus.
Moschus moschiferus. Musk Deer. N. O. Mammalia. Trituration of inspissated secretion contained in preputial follicles.
Clinical EN
Angina pectoris. Catalepsy. Croup. Diabetes. Dyspnoea. Epilepsy. Fainting. Heart, failure of. Herpes, mercurial and venereal. Hiccough. Hypochondriasis. Hysteria. Hystero-epilepsy. Impotence. Laryngismus. Lungs, paralysis of. Pregnancy, complaints of. Rage, fits of. Stings. Typhoid. Vertigo. Whooping-cough.
Characteristics EN
The well-known power of Musk—the perfume—to produce fainting in some by the mere smelling of it, gives the chief keynote for its use in homoeopathy: Faints easily; faints dead away from the least excitement; scolds and rages till she falls unconscious globus hystericus ending in unconsciousness; faints while eating during menses; faints from heart disease. All complaints which have easy fainting as a leading accompaniment may want Mosch. Coldness is another keynote. "In nervous or spasmodic complaints where the patient feels very cold: in epileptic fits where there is rigor or chilliness, or shuddering as though the patient was very cold" (H.
N. G). The coldness may be general or it may affect single parts as one cheek or one foot. Pallor accompanies it.
Sensation as if cool wind blowing on parts. Coldness in tibiae. Allied to the chill is another feature in Mosch.—tension: tension in muscles, in skin, in mind. Tension in back or before menses; tension in limbs, they feel too short.
Pressure outward, in heart. Spasms and twitches. Subsultus tendinum of fevers. Laryngeal spasm.
Spasm of chest; of heart, general convulsions. Sexual desire is much excited in both sexes, even in the aged. Diabetes with impotence has been cured by Mosch., which has excessive thirst and other symptoms of diabetes. Mosch. is suited to spoiled, sensitive natures and hysterical women and men.
Among the peculiar sensations are: As if falling from a height. As of being turned about so rapidly he perceived the current of air produced by the motion. As if cold, wet poultices on head. Headache as if from a heavy weight.
As if a cord were frequently drawn and tightened so as to cut head in two. As if a nail pressed on occiput, the point piercing the brain. Rushing in ears as from strong wind or from the wing of a bird. As if facial muscles too short.
Movement of lower jaw as if chewing. As if everything in abdomen constricted. Part lain on feels dislocated or sprained. As if larynx closed on breath.
As if cold air blowing on him. There is < from pressure. Motion <; must lie down, and lie still. Vertigo < stooping;
> on rising. Burning heat in bed. Getting warm > tension in head. Sitting in a room < tension in head; = headache and nausea; = pain in occiput.
> In open air. Becoming cold < tension in back of head; = cramps; cramp-like and suffocating constriction of chest. Wants to uncover. < After coitus (vomiting).
< After a meal; during a meal. < On side lain on.
Relations EN
Antidoted by: Camph. (unconsciousness and coldness), Coff. Antidote to: Therid. (headaches).
Compare: In neuralgic pains and functional diseases from taking cold, Amm., Ign., Mag. m., Valer. One hand cold, the other hot, Chi., Dig., Pul., Ip. Nausea at sight of food, Colch., Lyc., Phos. ac., Saba, Spi. (at smell of food, Colch., Eup. perfol.).
< After coitus, K. ca. Pain before menses > by flow, Lach. (Mosch. has drawing pulling at beginning of menses ceasing with flow; Zinc. has burning in left ovary ceasing with flow.) Hysteria, Plat.
Scolding, Pallad. (but Mosch. keeps it up till falls unconscious), Therid. Faints easily, Ign. Non-reaction from irritable weakness, Ambr., Agar., Asaf., Camph., Cast., Chi., Cocc., Coff., Cypr., Scutel., Tarent., Val., Zn. [Castor. has pains > by pressure, Nux m. error of perception, drowsy, faints, tympany.
Val. nerves irritated, can't keep still, > moving, taste tallowy, slimy. Asaf. reversed peristalsis; rancid eructations. Mag. m. faints at dinner, > eructations; headache > pressure and wrapping up; palpitation > moving; crumbling stools.]
Causation EN
Chill.
Mind EN
Excitement as from alcohol
Great absence of mind, sometimes with confused speech
Preoccupation, during which the patient talks to himself, and gesticulates, as if bereft of reason
Bustling activity, with weakness, so that everything falls from hands
Fretful mind
Cries one moment, uncontrollable laughter the next
Complaints and lamentations on account of excessive sufferings, with inability to indicate the part affected; when questioned, patient complains still more urgently, but without saying where he suffers
Apprehension of death, and excessive timidity about dying
Hypochondriacal anxiety, sometimes with palpitation of heart
Exceedingly quarrelsome humour and great irascibility, with passion, proceeding even to fury
Very violent anger, raves and scolds till mouth dry, lips blue, eyes staring, face deathly pale, and she falls unconscious
Loss of memory.
Head EN
Vertigo and wavering before eyes, on least movement of head or eyelids
Vertigo < stooping, > rising
Vertigo, even to loss of consciousness, or with fainting
Vertigo, with sensation of falling
Vertigo, with nausea and vomiting, want to lie down, and desire for coffee
Dizziness, as from intoxication
Headache, with nausea and vomiting, which compels lying down
Heaviness in head
Compressive and stunning headache, esp. just above root of nose; with nausea in evening, > moving head, and in room, > in open air
Cramp-like and tensive drawing in head, and esp. in occiput, extending nearly to nape of neck; with nausea, < in evening, when sitting in room, and when becoming cold, > in open air, and when getting warm
Congestion in head
Congestion of blood to head, heaviness of head
Aching and boring pain in occiput, as if a nail were driven into brain;
< sitting in a room.
Eyes EN
Eyes dull, with pressive pain in canthi
Lachrymation
Eyes fixed, sparkling, with a sort of dizziness and absence of mind
Sudden obscuration of eyes
Eyes turned upwards, fixed and glistening
Pressing, itching and pimples on eyes
Small red pimples on upper eyelids
Itching in canthi.
Ears EN
Eruptions on ears, with burning pain after being scratched
Crepitation and cracking in ears
Roaring before ears
Detonation in (r.) ear like report of a cannon, accompanied with discharge of a few drops of blood
Singing tinnitus.—(Noise in ears for four years, like a shrieking steam-engine, stops and changes its character; dates from parturition and occurs at menstrual period
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Hardness of hearing
Discharge of cerumen from ears.
Nose EN
Epistaxis.—Tingling in extremity of nose, as if from insects.
Face EN
Heat in face, sometimes without redness, and with eyes dull
Heat in one (l.) cheek, without redness, while the other (r.) is red without heat
Pale face, with perspiration
Movement of lower jaw, as if he were chewing
Earthy pale complexion
Tension in muscles of face, as if they were too short.
Mouth EN
Desquamation of lips.—Great dryness in mouth.
Stomach EN
Putrid taste of food
Great desire for beer or brandy
Thirst
Aversion to food
Faints while eating
Spasmodic hiccough
Violent eructations, sometimes with nausea
Sudden attacks of nausea; at sight or thought of food
Nausea, which mounts from epigastrium, with retraction of navel, and cramp-like pains
Violent vomiting, esp. in morning, and often accompanied by pain in stomach and chest, and distension of epigastrium
Aching in stomach
Sensation of fulness and obstruction in region of stomach and epigastrium, sometimes with uneasiness, < after a moderate meal
Smarting, burning sensation of excoriation, in region of stomach, after a meal.
Abdomen EN
Hysterical abdominal spasms
Attacks of painful contraction in umbilical region, with suspended respiration
Sensation of tension in abdomen, as if clothes were too tight, accompanied by an anxiety which neither permits attention to any kind of labour, nor continuance in one place, but compels constant running from side to side
Incarceration of flatus.
Stool And Anus EN
Constipation, esp. after taking coffee
Stools soft, smell sweetish
Diarrhoea (involuntary), esp. at night, and sometimes during sleep
Diarrhoea, with violent cuttings
The loose evacuations are always mixed with faecal matter
Faeces of the colour of sepia
Urgent and ineffectual want to evacuate
Stitches in the anus, extending to the bladder.
Urinary Organs EN
Copious watery urine.
Male Sexual Organs EN
Great increase of sexual desire, sometimes with insupportable tickling in the parts, or tensive pains in penis
A small retracted penis in an old man suddenly attains its former size; an impotent man became natural
Impotence occasioned by a cold; preceding diabetes
Painful involuntary pollutions without erection
Erection, with burning pain in urethra
Erections with desire to urinate
Nausea and vomiting after coition.
Female Sexual Organs EN
Violent sexual desire
Menses: too early and too profuse, with drawing pain; with intolerable titillation in genitals; great disposition to faint
Desire greatly excited (in an old woman)
Drawing, and sensation of bearing down towards hypogastrium and the genital organs during menses
Dysmenorrhoea with fainting
Bearing down as if menses would appear
During pregnancy she complains much, but of nothing in particular.
17, 18.
Respiratory Organs and Chest
A sudden sensation in upper part of larynx as if it closed upon the breath; as if caused by the vapour of sulphur
Severe dry cough < morning, pain under l. breast on coughing
Whooping-cough, last stage, with vertigo and constriction of chest and trachea
Difficult respiration, and shortness of breath, with shootings in chest
Cramp-like and suffocating constriction in chest, esp. after taking cold (or on going out into cold open air; or becoming cold)
Hysterical spasms of chest
Cramps in chest, commencing sometimes with an inclination to cough, and afterwards aggravated so as to create despair
Pressive pain in chest, to extent of obstructing respiration
Gnawing in chest with sense of suffocation
Paralysis of lungs, loud rattling of mucus; restlessness; syncope
Shootings in chest and sides, sometimes with redness and bloatedness of face, dilated pupils, rough and dry tongue, and burning thirst
The chest is acutely affected, and painful on all sides, with violent and dry cough
Painful sensitiveness of chest under arms, esp. when pressed
A pressive pain in l. breast as though the pain would force itself through the nipple
Angina, tightness of chest, obliged to breathe forcibly.
Heart EN
Anxious palpitation of heart
Palpitation; dyspnoea; prostration; nervousness-says, "I shall die, I know I shall die."
Sensation of trembling around heart, with constriction in whole chest
Prostration followed by threatened collapse.
Neck And Back EN
Violent drawings in nape; unable to turn head
Pain in muscles of neck as if torn from upper and lower attachments
Drawing pain from second cervical vertebra to r. shoulder
Drawing pains in spine which extend into hip-joint, and there become so violent that he cries out
Violent drawing pain in back, as if tissues drawn tense (as before menses)
Partly jerking, partly drawing pains in spine
Acute pressure l. side of sacrum above coccyx, as if caused by a dull instrument.
Upper Limbs EN
Drawing pains along the entire extent of the arm, and esp. in wrists, as from cramp
Burning, with sensation of coldness, in last joints of fingers
Swelling of hands, with shooting pains
Convulsive movements of hands and fingers.
Lower Limbs EN
Restlessness in legs, with paralytic weakness, which compels constant movement
Trembling in legs, as after great fatigue, when seated
Compressive pain in hollows of knees as though tendons too short
Paralytic weakness in legs, on sitting down, after walking
Sensation of coldness on tibia
Burning pressure on tips of r. toes
Jerking pains in nails of two first toes as if they would suppurate, could not bear anything to touch them, could only walk barefooted upon the heel.
Generalities EN
Pricking in limbs, sometimes with pain in the part, affected Cramp-like pains in limbs Trembling and jerking, over whole body Weakness, which is felt more during repose than in movement
Weakness to the extent of fainting, with nocturnal coldness of skin generally Fainting fits: esp. at night (in bed), in evening, or in open air, followed by headache; of hysterical persons Hypochondriacal complaints, originating in sexual system Wrenching and bruising pain, in side on which patient has been lying
The sufferings are < when the body is chilled Great susceptibility to open air Pinching, shootings, and itching, which compels scratching, in different parts of body Tetanus
Convulsions with cramps in chest Hysterical symptoms, even in men.—[We may think strongly of this remedy in nervous or spasmodic complaints where the patient feels very cold; in epileptic fits, for instance, where there is rigor or chilliness, or shuddering, as though the patient were very cold In complaints where the smell of musk affords great relief Where there is a sense of fulness in the inner parts
Sensations: of coldness of the skin; great sensation of coldness in outer single parts; external chilliness with internal heat Pain where there is a sensation of oppression, or a very severe oppressive pain H. N.
G.]
Skin EN
Herpes with excessive burning.
Sleep EN
Great drowsiness during day, with frequent and vehement yawning
Coma
At night, inability to lie long in same position; pain in part on which patient has lain, as of a dislocation, or a bruise
Vivid dreams, in which the passions are strongly excited
Dreams in which nothing succeeds
Sleeplessness during whole night, from excitability of nervous system
Sleeplessness of hysterical persons.
Fever EN
Pulse full and accelerated, with ebullitions
Weak pulse, faintings from anaemia
Circulation of blood accelerated
Frequent sensation as of cool air blowing on person, esp. on the parts which are uncovered
External coldness with internal heat
One cheek is pale and hot, the other is red and cold
The one hand is burning hot and pale, the other is cold and red
Sensation of coldness, mostly in spine, with drawing pains
The air seems cold; patient seeks fireside
Frequent slight shuddering, commencing at head and spreading over whole body
Attacks of burning heat in evening; in bed frequently only on r. side, with restlessness and inclination to uncover
Sweat every morning
Clammy perspiration in morning, smelling of musk.